Help Justify Advanced Placement

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Thanks for all the helpful advice.

Out of curiosity, is this a case where you are arguing into the honors class instead of the standard class or that you are arguing into chemistry instead of some other science subject.

It was mentioned before, and while I wouldn't agree that chemistry has a lot of math (at least not in anything covered in high school or the first couple years of general college chemistry) but what math there is does require a solid understanding of algebra and solving some more complex equations

So before jumping into the hard chemistry class as a freshman it is probably good to make sure he can handle the math (and if he can, that is something to emphasize in the letter).

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Out of curiosity...

We are arguing into honors rather than the standard science curriculum (which includes some chemistry). He is interested because he really liked the chemistry unit earlier this year and because they stressed you have to have good math skills. Math has always been a subject that just clicks for him. Plus only the few get selected so it has a certain cache with his peers.

[DisneyFan25863]

I kinda wish they had offered chem before bio here...AP Bio would have been a lot easier if I had a better understanding of chemistry.

Sig Figs were pretty easy for me...it was anything that dealed with mols that confused me.